TITLE: Orbital Sunset
NAME: Matthew Corey Brown
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: mbrown@spry.com
TOPIC: Glass
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mcborbss.jpg
RENDERER USED: povray for windows 3.0
TOOLS USED: PaintShop Pro
RENDER TIME: 62 hrs 07 minutes 23 seconds
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 90
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

"Aug 12th, 4014
        As i look out my window and see the sunset from orbit, it marks the end
of
humanity's exile from homeworld. The earth has healed itself. May we have the
wisdom 
to live as partners with the earth and not as a slave master."

I truly think the wisdom isn't there though,  the room is too clean and lacks in
nature. 
The sunset signifies the death of earth again, not the end of humanity's exile
as the
writer of the journal hopes.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
All by hand and povwin's internal editor.

The basic room Shape is a box with a super ellipsoid cut out the center. The
window
shape is a bunch of boxes and cylinders rotated.

The pictures (3 in all, 1 is readily apparent and the other two are hinted at in

reflections, as is the door to the room) are all raytraces i've done in the
past.

the Bed, desk and chair's seat are a super ellipsoids.

the chairs legs are cylinders and tori.

Earth atmosphere is a dust halo and its clouds are a spiral pigment map of
spiral pigments.

The floor has a bump map of a blurry X that i did in paintshop pro

The Sun is a disk mixed with a subtle lensflare using Nathan Kopps Lensflare
v2.7 
include file.


